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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 728339" data-attributes="member: 2238">Why the ranger can use spells and bows.Aroo?The ranger comes from several spots.  The oldest ranger I can find is Artemis, the greek goddess of the moon, wilderness and hunt, as time progressed she became a three formed goddess.  The moon, the huntress, and the Hecate.  Her brother, Apollo is the god of Archery, Light, Healing and Knowledge.  They are called the sun and moon.  This has precedence later.Robin Hood is a ranger.  He forsakes his nobility to fight against false nobility and for what is right in sherwood forest.  Yet he is still a noble.Tolkien put both of these items together in the form of Aragorn.  Minas Tirith is the tower of the Sun, Minas Ithil was the tower of the moon.  Minas Ithil fell, and became Minus Morgul.  This foreshadows the choice Aragorn has to make.  Should he remain as a ranger or claim his inheritance as King? Remaining as a ranger causes problems for middle earth and dooms the world.  While it was once good he sides with the same things represented by the Hecate (darkness corruption death and evil) if he remains a ranger.  Aragorn's denial of his nobility is direct from Robin Hood.Apollo, Artemis, and Robin hood all used Bows.  Aragorn is the archetype for the Ranger.  He is a healer, and he can use the palintir (crystal ball, a knowledge device) without fear.  Thus the spells (to be able to have healing and knowledge abilities in the D&D game system) and bow usage.Aaron.</blockquote>

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